Mark McGurl

Mark McGurl's scholarly work centers on the relation of literature to social, educational and other institutions from the late 19th century to the present. He is the author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Harvard), which was the recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for 2011.
McGurl’s previous book was The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James (Princeton). He has also published articles in journals such as Critical Inquiry, Representations, American Literary History, and New Literary History. He teaches a range of classes on American literature and related topics.
McGurl received his BA from Harvard, then worked at the New York Times and the New York Review of Books before earning his PhD in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins. He has held fellowships from Office of the President of the University of California and the Stanford Humanities Center.
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Spring 2023-2024
Intro to English III: Modern Literature
Media Theory for Literary Studies
Winter 2023-2024
Wastelands
Modeling the Post45 Literary Field: Forms, Frames, Context, Themes
Spring 2022-2023
Modern Literature
Modeling the Post45 Literary Field: Forms, Frames, Context, Themes
Spring 2021-2022
US Fiction 1945 to 2000
Wastelands
Winter 2019-2020
Wastelands
Spring 2018-2019
Modeling the Post45 Literary Field: Forms, Frames, Contexts, Themes
Spring 2018-2019
Introduction to English III: Modern Literature
Spring 2017-2018
Introduction to English III: Modern Literature
Spring 2017-2018
Practicing Theories